Quotes About Presence

Happiness is simply to allow everything to be exactly as it is from moment to moment.

He is so infinitely blessed, that every perception of His blissful presence imparts a gladness to the heart. Every degree of approach to Him is, in the same proportion, a degree of happiness.

Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.

By accepting yourself and being fully what you are, your presence can make others happy.

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

Real happiness lies in that which never comes nor goes, but simply is.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

Our thinking minds deprive us of the happiness that comes when we are living fully in the moment.

Happiness comes uninvited: and the moment that you are conscious that you are happy, you are no longer happy.

Joy is that kind of happiness that does not depend on what happens.

Happiness is a state of which you are unconscious. The moment you are aware that you are happy, you cease to be happy.

Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.

People are so busy chasing happiness- if they would slow down and turn around, they would give it a chance to catch up with them.

Happiness is often somewhere near us, not in the far places!

And then comes unhappiness, and one does not become unhappy either. One says, 'A black cloud passing. I am the witness, the watcher.'

Enjoyment is just the sound of being centered.

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.

Real happiness is when you are happy for no reason at all; you are simply being.

Sometimes we are only aware of how happy we are when the moment has passed. But now and again, if we are very lucky, we are aware of happiness when it is actually happening.

Happiness is not something that you pursue; it is something that you allow. Happiness is just being.

Happiness, most often, is a choice. Make the choice to sit, breathe, and be in that moment.

The most complete and true happiness comes in moments when you feel right there, completely present, with no ideas about good and bad, right and wrong - just a sense of open heart and open mind.

The most damaging erroneous belief about happiness is, of course, that happiness is somewhere else--that is, that it is not with you.